Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 1993
ISBN 10: 0862415381 ISBN 13: 9780862415389
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Rob Roy MacGregor, Scotlands most romantic, elusive hero, was an outlaw and a life-long enemy of Montrose. So well-known was he that no one thought to write down a physical description of him, or any direct record of his childhood and youth. Thus tracking down Rob Roy today is to embark upon a painstaking search through archives, estate records and folk myths, enriched and confused by the romantic yarns that have grown up around him.W. H. Murray brings together new interpretations of Rob Roys life and times to produce a new understanding of the character, actions and motives of a man who became a myth and symbol of Scotland. Murray shows that Rob Roys renown stems from his remarkable force of character, rather than his politics or his place in the writings of Sir Walter Scott. His political mission outwardly failed, but his extraordinary resolution in adversity has earned him his place in history and legend.
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Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2002
ISBN 10: 1841581984 ISBN 13: 9781841581989
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 4th. Book by Campbell, Steuart.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 0862417813 ISBN 13: 9780862417819
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 0. This book provides an introduction to one of the formative periods of Scottish history. The opening chapter offers a perspective of the Roman achievement, as viewed by Magnus Maximus, usurper and claimant to the imperial throne, while the final chapter offers another imagined personal commentary on the transition from the Roman period. In between is an account of the monuments which remain today as memorials to imperial rule. From the great marching camps, to roads, from siegeworks to signal stations, from altars to bathhouses and of course along the great fixed fortification of the Antonine Wall, the Roman presence remains a real and palpable one. This, after all, was the northern frontier. Again and again massive imperial armies struck north - under Agricola and under Septimius Severus to name but the most famous - and again and again the tribesmen of the north struck back, most notably in the great Barbarian conspiracy of the late fourth century. Here, almost more than on any other frontier, we see the Empire wrestling with the problem of controlling and containing a restless population, and even as the Empire collapsed it may have left one last legacy which shaped the future of Scotland - the memory and tradition of Empire.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 0862418348 ISBN 13: 9780862418342
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. illustrated edition. Book by Harper, Norman.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 1990
ISBN 10: 0862411920 ISBN 13: 9780862411923
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and entertainers, it is thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable. Written in 1938-9, the novel contains many symbolic parallels to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s and the desperate plight of persecuted minorities such as the Jews and the left-wing activists with whom Naomi Mitchison personally campaigned at the time. With the invasion of Britain a real possibility, she felt compelled to write a testament to the power of human solidarity which, even faced with death, can overcome the worst that human evil can achieve. The Blood of the Martyrs is the least autobiographical of Mitchison's major works of fiction, yet, with its implicit credo, is her most passionately self-revealing.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 0862414237 ISBN 13: 9780862414238
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. From his sheltered childhood in Orkney to the turmoil of industrial Glasgow, Edwin Muir was witness to some of the most traumatic years and events of our modern age. And yet, in his life and in his art, he was constantly haunted by the symbolic 'fable' which he longed to find beneath the surface reality of the everyday. From his dream notebooks to his travels in Eastern Europe, Muir paints an unforgettable picture of the slow and sometimes painful growth of a poet's sensibility as he comes to terms with his own nature amidst the terror and confusion of the twentieth century.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2002
ISBN 10: 1841582026 ISBN 13: 9781841582023
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition Thus. Product Description A worthy successor to the best-selling Para Handy. One hundred years after he first appeared in print, Erchie brilliantly displays Munro's gift for humour and characterization as well as providing a marvellous insight into the Scotland of the time. Erchie Macpherson, Glasgow waiter and Kirk Deacon, first appeared in the Glasgow Evening News in February 1902 - nearly three years before the appearance of the better-known Para Handy series. The Erchie stories were an instant success. In 1993 Brian Osborne and Ronald Armstrong produced for Birlinn an edition of the Erchie stories and included 52 stories that had appeared in the News between 1910 and 1926. None of them had ever previously appeared in book form. Recent research by them in the files of the News has produced a further 61 stories, new to book form, which were originally published in 1902-1904 and in 1908-1909. The total Erchie collection is thus an amazing 142 stories, 113 of which never appeared in book form in Munro's lifetime. Throughout the collection Munro uses Erchie, his wife, Jinnet, and his friend Duffy the coal merchant, three pawky Glasgow characters, to comment on contemporary politics, stories in the news, fashions, sport, and any aspect of daily life that comes under their notice. The range is bewildering - the race for the North Pole, Edward VII's Coronation, the Olympic Games, flying machines, temperance, Harry Lauder, Robert Burns, tipping, the Fair holidays and Andrew Carnegie are just some of the topics dealt with in the latest batch of stories unearthed from the archive. About the Author Neil Munro was born in 1863. He followed a career in journalism, eventually becoming editor of the Glasgow Evening News. He achieved great success as a poet and novelist, writing masterpieces of historical fiction such as John Splendid and The New Road as well as the humorous tales of Para Handy and Jimmy Swan. Neil Munro died in 1930. Brian Osborne and Ronald Armstrong have written and edited numerous books, including Birlinn's definitive edition of Neil Munro's Para Handy and the Erchie and Jimmy Swann stories. They also edited Echoes of the Sea: A Scottish Sea Anthology, Mungo's City: A Glasgow Anthology, Cradle of the Scots: An Argyll Anthology and Wicked Men and Fools: A Scottish Crime Anthology (all published by Birlinn). Brian Osborne has also written three biographies, including The Ingenious Mr Bell: A Life of Henry Bell. Brian lives in Kirkintilloch and Ronnie in Cardross.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 0862417805 ISBN 13: 9780862417802
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 0. In the HISTORIC SCOTLAND series. An introduction to key themes and periods in Scottish history and prehistory. Describes the transformation of the Scottish landscape from wild to domestic with the beginnings of the felling of the primeval forests and the building of monuments on the land from about 6000 BC.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2008
ISBN 10: 1841587176 ISBN 13: 9781841587172
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2007
ISBN 10: 0859766772 ISBN 13: 9780859766777
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Marshall, Rosalind K.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 1841581968 ISBN 13: 9781841581965
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. "Men go out into the void spaces of the world for various reasons. Some are actuated simply by a love of adventure, some have the keen thirst for scientific knowledge, and others again are drawn away from the trodden paths by the lure of 'little voices,' the mysterious fascination of the unknown. I think that in my own case it was a combination of these factors that determined me to try my fortune again in the frozen south."-Sir Ernest ShackletonThis omnibus combines Heart of the Antarctic and South, Sir Ernest Shackleton's personal accounts of his polar expeditions.Heart of the Antarctic is the story of his expedition of 1907-09, part of his neverending quest to reach the South Pole. On this, his first expedition in sole charge, he came agonizingly close to achieving his dream. However, appalling weather conditions, together with the necessity of reaching his ship before it had to flee the advancing pack-ice, forced him to abandon his goal in a breathtaking race against time. With photographs taken on the expedition by Douglas Mawson, and numerous maps and diagrams, this is a fascinating record of one of the most daring feats of exploration of all time. This is the only complete edition available.South is Shackleton's account of a journey that began in August 1914 with high hopes of a first in exploration and ended two years later in another desperate struggle for survival, after the expedition's ship, the Endurance, was first trapped in sea-ice, then crushed. Shackleton, with a handful of his party, braved the fury of the South Atlantic as they made their desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia aboard the James Caird. This small boat-just over twenty feet long-was pitted against the fury of the southern ocean. The survival of the entire expedition was hinged on this last gamble.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 1841580201 ISBN 13: 9781841580203
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2002
ISBN 10: 1873644841 ISBN 13: 9781873644843
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Publicado por Brand: Birlinn Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 1862321116 ISBN 13: 9781862321113
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.